Incident at Mpanza: Bamtha Rebellion, South Africa 1906

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Bambatha, a chief of the Zondi tribe living just north of Greytown, had been suspended from his chieftainship early in 1906. It is alleged that Dinuzulu encouraged him to resist the authorities. In 1906 a poll tax, instead of the prevailing hut tax, was imposed on the local Zulus. These and other incidents caused Bambatha to rebel and a number of other chiefs followed suit. A column of police was dispatched to collect three settler women and a child at Mpanza and Keates Drift and bring them to safety. On their return journey on 4April 1906, four
policemen, Trooper Aston and his dog were killed at Ambush Rock, on the Dundee road outside Greytown.

Colonial forces were called up, the barefoot Nongqaye (Zulu Police) from Eshowe formed a border guard for Zululand, and Eshowe was evacuated and entrenched. Bambatha and his men were finally trapped and killed in the Mome Gorge.This engagement virtually ended the rebellion, which had lead to the death of approximately three and a half thousand people. Bambatha is considered to be one of the forerunners of the Freedom Struggle in South Africa.